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WORLD NEWS news briefs

By Jordan B. Darling

LOCAL Bacteria Warning in Effect for Catalina Island

CATALINA— Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has issued a bacteria warning for several Los Angeles County beaches including Avalon Beach on Catalina Island.

The department is cautioning swimmers, surfers, and anyone that spends time in the ocean around discharging storm drains, creeks, and rivers to be aware of bacteria that come up after storms.

This warning also follows a 17-million-gallon sewage spill that happened last month, according to patch.com.

The spill was from Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant in Playa Vista and affected beaches throughout Los Angeles. Other beaches under a warning are Malibu Lagoon at Surfrider Beach, Santa Monica Pier, and Mother’s Beach in Marina Del Rey. The department has been giving daily warnings about the water quality near Los Angeles beaches.

Cure Cancer Cup Raises $20,000

REDONDO— The King Harbor Yacht Club hosted the 29th Annual Cure Cancer Cup in July and raised over $20,000 for Cedars-Sinai Research Lab, according to a press release from the club.

There were 24 sailboats in the inverted start pursuit race ranging from 14 to 40 feet all hoping to take home the Tom Collier Memorial Trophy.

Collier passed away from cancer and soon after his friends established the regatta is in his name.

The top three boats were Fred and Suzanne Cottrell in Tigger in the first place, Marty Burke in a Beneteau 36.7 Bella Vita in second place, and Andy Beggs in a Beneteau 40.7 Triggerfish V.

Crack Taco Shack Comes to Seaport Village

SAN DIEGO— The Port of San Diego has signed a lease with Crack Taco Shop, a locally owned and operated restaurant that offers up a variety of Mexican tacos and burritos with homemade corn tortillas.

The Cardiff Crack is a crowd favorite, a taco filled with burgundy pepper tri-tip. The shop will have outdoor dining along the promenade in Seaport Village’s Lighthouse District near Spill the Beans. “We welcome Crack Taco Shop to Seaport Village as another local success story that is expanding its portfolio to our San Diego Bay waterfront,” said Michael Zucchet, chairman for the Port of San Diego Board of Port Commissioners in an August 11 press release. “With the addition of Crack Taco to an already diverse lineup of eateries, shops, and experiences, Seaport Village is a San Diego hot spot and is in increasingly high demand in the retail and food and beverage markets.”

The shop is anticipated to begin construction in the spring of 2022 and will open that summer.

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL Man Catches a Great White Shark from the Beach

NAUSET BEACH, MASS.— On Aug. 11 Fox News reported that an angler on the beach in Massachusetts caught a great white shark that was trying to snag a fish off of his line. Matt Pieciak was on Nauset Beach with his family when he and his dad decided to throw a couple of fishing lines out into the water.

Pieciak’s cousin Maggie Ciarcia told the Cape Cod Times that the angler had stuck the rod in the sand and gone to play cornhole when the line began to rattle.

Ciracia thought her cousin had caught a fish and began to record Pieciak reeling in the line and the shark appeared thrashing around before breaking free and swimming off.

The best guess is that Pieciak had caught a smaller fish and the shark got caught on the line by mistake trying to snag the smaller fish.

New Scoring Penalty in Use from Racing Rules of Sailing

INTERNATIONAL—The Racing Rules of Sailing 2021-24 has added a new scoring category for sailing the course.

The new rule can be applied by the race committee without a hearing for boats that do not sail the course, by adding ‘did not sail the course’ into the list of categories to be scored by the race committee.

The change was made in accordance with Proposal 4 of Submission 139-18 which was considered at the 2018 World Sailing Annual Conference.

According to Scuttlebutt, there are four parts, part one inserts a definition of ‘sail the course’ based on the string part of rule 28.2.; part two delete the ‘string part’ of rule 28.2, and base rule 28.1 on the newly defined term ‘sail the course; part three insert a requirement that a boat must ‘sail the course’ into the definition of finish; part four amend rules A4.2 and A5 (new rules A5.1 and A5.2) to include a requirement to score a boat that did not sail the course NSC without a hearing.

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